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Year 1

This week, 09.05.23, we are using all the sounds we have learnt to read pseudo (alien) words.

For example: fape, thazz, snemp, spron. blurst.

Year 1 Staff

Class Teacher: Mrs Kay Fawkes

Support Staff: Miss Crew, Mrs Macleod, Mrs McComish, Mr Louis (PE)

Summer Term

English: In our writing lessons we will continue to write grammatically correct sentences using capital letters and full stops, as well as learning how to use exclamation marks and question marks correctly. We will introduce our new cursive handwriting in preparation for Year 2.

Maths: We will start the term looking at measuring weight and capacity. We will then explore place value, multiplication and division, position and direction, time and money.

Phonics: The children will continue to learn all the graphemes (groups of letters that make sounds, phonemes) to help them to read, write and to pass the phonics screening at the end of Year 1.

Reading: We will listen to the children read at least twice a week in school as well continuing to introduce them to a wide variety of different stories in our English lessons. .We ask you to continue to read the phonics shed book with your child four times before we change it. This is to increase fluency, expression and then understanding through re-reading. Your child will then pick another book to share with you.

History: Our topic this term, will be investigating how travel has changed through the years.

Home Learning: This will be set on a Wednesday and consist of:

A maths or English sheet, Reading 5 times a week and one activity on the Phonics Shed website.

On some occasions there may be research for out topics for the children to complete.

Woods Visits: Thursday 27th April, Thursday 18th May,

PE days: these continue to be on a Wednesday and Thursday and earrings must NOT be worn.

Summer school trip: Friday 12th May

Spring Term

Our Toy Museum

Welcome to Year 1 2022-2023!

This year in Year 1:

What to bring to school: Water bottle, reading folder (with reading book, reading record and home learning book), named uniform!

English: This term, we will be learning the alphabet and ensuring we know both the lower case and capital letters for each letter. We can then use this knowledge to write in grammatically correct sentences using capital letters and full stops. We will build on the knowledge learnt in Ducklings to write stories.

Phonics: The children will continue to learn all the graphemes (groups of letters that make sounds, phonemes) to help them to read, write and to pass the phonics screening at the end of Year 1.

Reading: We will listen to the children read at least twice a week in school as well as introducing them to a wide variety of different stories. We ask that they read to you at least 5 times a week to build upon their decoding strategies and comprehensions. Research shows that the better readers make better writers! In class, we have our reading award scheme, where children receive certificates when they have read a certain number of times.

Maths: This term we will be concentrating on sorting, counting and addition and subtraction. The children will be talking about solving problems and using what they know to tell us how they found an answer.

Topic: Our geography topic this term will be 'What a wonderful world!' We will be learning about Sandhurst and the UK. We will start to learn geographical terms that will be used during their time in St. Michael's.

WOW! We will also be attending a WOW trip in September and this will be followed by a couple of weeks work and an open day.

Home learning: Home work will alternate weekly between a maths activity and a writing activity. It will be found in their Home Learning books that need to be kept in their reading folders. Home Learning will be set every Wednesday. Additionally, we will set a task on Ed Shed in line with the phonics they are learning in class, expect them to read to an adult at home at least 5 times a week and practise spellings. Each child will have a spelling teddy in their home learning book, they will be tested in class and will receive their new teddy when they have spelt all the words correctly.

Woods visits: Friday 16th September, Friday 14th October. Children need to come in a PE kit suitable for a woods visit. They need to bring their school uniform to change into. Please pack extra socks and footwear! We will still go to the woods in the rain. Please let one of the class staff know if you want to come with us.

PE days: Wednesday and Thursday: children come in their PE kits, no earrings to be worn.

Phonic Shed Phonemes

In this video I have recorded all the sounds that the children have learnt so far in Year 1. It is extremely important that they learn all of these sounds so they can use them in their writing and reading as well as in their phonics screening.

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